In Pursuit Of Personal Happiness.
20 Mar 2019
Dear LPG,
Did you know that today marks the 6th International day of Happiness?The United Nations held a ‘Conference of Happiness’ in 2011, and during that conference it was decided that there should be an international day dedicated to this somewhat enigmatic emotion.
Though a relatively new feature on the world’s commemorative calendar, the day is beginning to accumulate a few unique traditions in different countries, but for me it is more significant that there are lots of psychologists and scientists who continue to ponder what makes people happy.Other LPG posts have homed in on the topic, and most people have spent a significant portion of their lives trying to work out the secret.I believe that consciously or subconsciously the professionals are all working on the subject from an ergonomic point of view, which is all they can do really, but perhaps they are missing one fundamental point, and that is that no one factor will work for everyone simply because we are so individual, and there are so many variables occurring in each of our very individual lives at any given time.
I have a suggestion for today.We each need to spend a really short period of time making a list of the things that will really make us happy.
I know that mine will include many things that are in my life at the moment which I would like to improve.It would include things I want to do but have not started yet, places that I would like to go and which I have not visited yet, things I would like to feel but have not experienced yet, people I would like to see again (and some I would like to repair broken friendships with), and perhaps a few things that I have already experienced or that I think I will enjoy.
Once we have the list we can work out how to get a little closer to each of the items on it.Some will be impossible to do anything about, while many of them will be simpler to achieve, but being armed with that list will give us somewhere to start.
SW, Beckenham
LPG took a look at what Google had to offer on this topic and found that there are many organisations now dedicating their aims to improving the ability to quantify, identify, share and promote the very essence of this emotion.
